# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第六百三十六条 (Article 636) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-636. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 会社法 (Companies Act), 平成十七年法律第八十六号 - English title "Companies Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第六百三十六条 (Article 636)（業務を執行する社員の責任） — address `art-636` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-636 - e-Gov law ID: 417AC0000000086 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六百三十六条（業務を執行する社員の責任） — (Responsibility of Members Who Execute Operations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-636 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-636 **第一項** 合同会社が前条の規定に違反して持分の払戻しをした場合には、当該持分の払戻しに関する業務を執行した社員は、当該合同会社に対し、当該持分の払戻しを受けた社員と連帯して、当該持分払戻額に相当する金銭を支払う義務を負う。ただし、持分の払戻しに関する業務を執行した社員がその職務を行うについて注意を怠らなかったことを証明した場合は、この限りでない。 art-636/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-636/par-1 If a limited liability company effects an equity interest refund in violation of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the members who executed the operations in connection with relevant equity interest refund are jointly and severally liable to relevant limited liability company, together with the members who received relevant equity interest refund, for payment of the monies in the amount equivalent to relevant partnership interest refund amount; provided, however, that this does not apply if relevant members who executed the operations regarding the refund of equity interest have proven that they did not fail to exercise due care with respect to the performance of their duties: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の義務は、免除することができない。ただし、持分の払戻しをした時における剰余金額を限度として当該義務を免除することについて総社員の同意がある場合は、この限りでない。 art-636/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-636/par-2 Exemptions from the obligations under the preceding paragraph cannot be given; provided, however, that this does not apply if consent of all members is obtained with respect to the exemption of relevant obligations to the extent of the surplus as at the day when the equity interest refund takes place. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-636/par-1: 前条 → 会社法 第六百三十五条 (Article 635), art-635 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-635 - art-636/par-2: 前項 → 会社法 第六百三十六条第一項 (Article 636, paragraph (1)), art-636/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-636/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第六百三十六条第二項（業務を執行する社員の責任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-636/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 会社法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/417AC0000000086/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 224 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17